Gov. Scott Walker's troubled economic development agency is still struggling, failing to accurately track jobs its awards are supposed to create and retain, handing out nearly $10 million in bad loans over the last two years and failing to turn over millions in tax credit repayments to the state, an audit released Wednesday shows.

Gov. Scott Walker's jobs agency would be able to issue business loans again under provisions in the state budget the Legislature's finance committee approved Tuesday in a sign that Republicans' faith Walker's troubled flagship economic engine is growing again.

A Milwaukee company that supplies, builds and runs senior living facilities will receive up to $22.5 million in state economic development tax credits to expand its campus on the city's northwest side.